The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel and Rucriminal.info found out the story of one of the richest people in the Volgograd region, former vice-governor Alexander Shilin, who tries to pretend to be a righteous member of society, but is himself the organizer of a criminal community that was actively operating in Volgograd and had security cover.
When he was appointed vice-governor of the Volgograd region, the owner of a large regional oil company "VIPoil" Alexander Shilin thought about how he could make money using the instruments of power that had appeared.
At that time, a fashion for creating large shopping centers for renting out premises appeared throughout the country, and a significant thing was the method of constructing these objects on the most desirable sites, where ordinary people usually lived in private homes.
And here begins the story of how a successful businessman turns into the leader of an organized criminal group, for whom no means will be enough to achieve the set goal.
Alexander Shilin, realizing that he himself, as an official, cannot get his hands dirty, decided to act through the hands of his henchman, Andrey Sredny, who was ready to fulfill any will of his boss.
Everything happened on the territory of the private sector, a small village, opposite the DK "Khimik" in the Krasnoarmeysky district of Volgograd. At that time, there were over 30 households in the village and several generations of people lived there with their families, they would have continued to live there if Shilin had not set his sights on their lands and sent Sredny to resolve the issue at any cost.
Having arrived on the territory, Sredny began to look for antisocial elements among the residents of the village, hoping in this way to get part of the households for free, but, to his chagrin, it was a village of decent families.
As Rucriminal.info found out, then Shilin's henchman began to introduce himself as a major investor, director of Retail Development Group LLC, and offer to buy houses for a rather symbolic fee, for which it was impossible to buy even a one-room apartment in Volgograd at that time.
Having heard another refusal and having passed on information about the difficulties in the negotiation process to Shilin, this criminal-official tandem decided to move on to a forceful solution to the problem. At that time, not having his own group, he turned to the criminal elements of the area so that they would turn the lives of the village residents into hell.
At that time, all the authoritative elements of Volgograd, one way or another, called themselves Kadintsy (authoritative businessman Vladimir Kadin was shot in 2011), even if they were not. Therefore, we will call the formed group Shilin's group.
The group began by intimidating people, saying that they would be in trouble if they refused, that they would be very ill, and other threats. The most spineless, frightened, decided to take any money, just to stay alive and healthy. The horrors of the 90s were still fresh in people's memories and no one wanted it to happen to them, especially considering the contingent that, together with Sredniy, came to people to force them to sell their property.
Despite the threats, most of the village still refused to leave, and then Shilin gave Sredniy the order to act as harshly and even cruelly as possible. Sredniy unquestioningly agreed to fulfill the boss's will.
Realizing that it was impossible to intimidate these people with words, Sredniy gave the order to start setting fire to the village. At that time, Muzraev's terrorist style (Muzraev is a former shadow governor of the Volgograd region, a former head of the regional Investigative Committee, currently serving a sentence for terrorism) of intimidation was not yet a well-known fact, but criminal groups actively used this method of creating an atmosphere of terror and intimidation of people. As the VChK-OGPU found out, at the first stage, the members of the group began to burn already bought houses, in which no one lived, so that the glow of the fire would scare the residents, and they would understand that today they were burning empty houses, and tomorrow they would come for them.
For each arson, firefighters arrived, the Ministry of Internal Affairs arrived, everyone recorded the fact of arson, but then in an informal setting they told the locals that they could not investigate anything, they were too small people, and the whole vice-governor Shilin was behind it all. If they took even a step in his direction, then they themselves would be fired at best, but they could find a reason not just to fire them, but also to imprison them.
A significant story happened when Andrey Sredny drove up to one of the bought houses, in which homeless people were already living and everyone knew about it, in his black jeep. Without thinking twice, he took a canister out of the trunk and began to pour gasoline on the house. The homeless people, knowing that Sredniy always carried a gun, were very afraid to leave the house; he already had a reputation as a man who would shoot without batting an eye. After dousing the house with gasoline and throwing a lit match in its direction, Sredniy calmly got into his jeep and drove away from the crime scene. The homeless people seemed to have managed to run out and escape, but it is likely that not all of them. That episode showed the residents settlement, that each of them could be next.
Each step Shilin took was tougher and tougher, he acted like an organized crime group from the wild 90s. He was getting closer to his goal of seizing the tasty plot of land.
Every day the number of those resisting was decreasing, the people living there were simple, without such serious connections as Shilin. And yet there were those among the residents who fought to the end.
One of these residents lived in a house for two owners, and when Sredny bought half of the house, he decided to get rid of his neighbor, he began to settle in the second half either a gypsy camp or homeless people, to whom he himself brought boxes of vodka for a stronger effect, they broke through the roof so that every rain in the house there would be a flood. But the man continued to fight. In his naivety, he made an appointment with Vice Governor Shilin, hoping to get through to the boss of this group, but was politely sent away, with the words that he was an ordinary official and had nothing to do with what was happening.
When there were very few houses left, Sredny, maddened by impunity, decided to burn them down, so in the middle of the night, on his command, a wooden garage near a wooden house was set on fire. Only by a miracle did people manage to run out of the house, call the fire department and stay alive. The criminal case is still being investigated. Despite the testimony of residents, Sredny did not face any consequences for this, and there is no talk at all about the boss of the group, Shilin.
After that, there was a hodgepodge of changes in the region's leaders, and Shilin was kicked out of his post. Having lost his administrative resource, he had to return to business without finishing the story of the total seizure of territory for subsequent development.
Today, two houses stand, the residents of which the once all-powerful official, and now just a respected businessman, could not survive. This is a reminder to us of how capital was formed in our country.
Yaroslav Mukhtarov
To be continued
Source: www.rucriminal.info
